All small and medium business owners go through perpetual hardship ever increasing expenditure makes added cost of creating and maintaining a website quite problematic proposal.

good news is that you do not have to spend a fortune to create a website if you follow these simple guidelines.

The first step in creating a website is to register a domain name and get web hosting space.

Before choosing your web hosting company, please keep the following in mind.

not choose a web hosting company that is little known but offers incredible deals, at a ridiculously low price. More often than not, they can not survive the competition, and the final, so you totally frustrated. You go hunting again for another hosting company, and losses due to website downtime, more so if yours is E commerce site.

Another trick that you should be aware of the unlimited bandwidth, unlimited disk space, unlimited hosting all come for excellent high. While the initial orders given with good intentions, as competition heats up hosting company can not keep up with the bandwidth they promised or space. Therefore, over time your website gets slower then the same bandwidth currently gets shared by several users. Instead of looking for good deals from ordinary business (there are tons out there like GoDaddy, Media Temple, 1and1 etc).

Many times, you get a genuine lucrative offers like free domain or low 1 year subscription. Added advantage of such a deal is that you get to look at the viability and profitability of your website before continuing next year.

Next comes choosing the type of website.The best model would be a CMS (Content Management System) based website. Unlike other IT concepts, the term CMS is quite intuitive. In short, it means a website where you (the website owner) has full control over its content. You can add, edit, delete, update content, or pages, and even change the website design without the intervention of a website designer.

There are many popular open source CMS available free as Joomla, Contrexx, Drupal, WordPress, and even E commerce CMS like Zencart, Magento, Presta Shop, etc. Most of these operate on PHP and MySQL, which also also open source.

The advantages of using CMS is substantial. A CMS makes website converts an easy process that allows sites to be updated regularly and kept looking fresh. Fresh material increase traffic and help popularize your business. Moreover, most of these CMS has built / free plugins, like Calendar, events, newsletters, document management, Blog, Shopping cart etc. which increases the value of your website many folds. You can even add Meta tags and data to your website for SEO, make your site search engine friendly.

If you want to have a quick reference design your site, you can replace the old template with the new one through the Admin Control Panel, and customize it to give a unique look to your website. In fact, site redesign can take ten minutes for basic work, which is simply a template time. Some tweaking may be necessary, but in general, this system is much faster and cheaper than with HTML.

There are several sites that offer beautiful completely free warehouse templates for popular CMS.

Once you decide on the CMS, please check what other settings are required to run CMS as PHP, MySQL, Apache, and OS like Linux. Make sure when you hire a web hosting space, the package offers the correct version of PHP and MySQL and Web server (Apache / IIS) required for your CMS.

Remember though that you can set up a website on A Shoe String Budget, the commercial success of your site depends on the material and how to manage them to attract visitors that convert into customers. In the end, the commercial results of what matters.